House of X: Fierce Battle (Sixteen)
Professor X paused slightly, then lowered his eyes. Schiller had indeed put his finger with great precision on the worry hidden in his heart. In truth, building a mutant nation was a goal he and Magneto could strive toward together, because the two of them had never truly been enemies from beginning to end. They were merely two sides of the same race. They had long shared an unspoken understanding, and would not truly resent each other over a momentary dispute.
But the younger mutants were not necessarily the same. They had not lived through the hardest era, and under the atmosphere of opposition between the two sides, they had long been dissatisfied with one another. It was not just that many among the X-Men disliked Magneto and felt he was too unscrupulous; the new generation in the Brotherhood of Mutants also picked apart everything about Professor X, feeling he was too soft and appeasing.
It was not as if the two sides had never fought, either. Whether major battles or minor clashes, there had been many, and both sides had suffered casualties. Young people were always hot-blooded. They had been enemies before, even refusing all contact for the rest of their lives, yet suddenly they were supposed to sit together and build a mutant nation. Even if they were all reasonable and willing to temporarily put aside old grudges, it was still a hidden danger.
Of course, major villains like Apocalypse had attacked other mutants too. But as the saying went, there was no price too high for a prodigal son who turned back. Apocalypse was strong enough, and no one had held any hopes for him in the first place. The fact that he could appear at all was already an unexpected